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Note: I need help with just the b part. Mercia Chocolates produces gourmet chocolate products with no preservatives. Any production must be sold within a

Note: I need help with just the b part.

Mercia Chocolates produces gourmet chocolate products with no preservatives. Any production must be sold within a few days, so producing for inventory is not an option. Mercias single plant has the capacity to make 94,500 packages of chocolate annually. Currently, Mercia sells to only two customers: Verns Chocolates (a specialty candy store chain) and Mega Stores (a chain of department stores). Verns orders 54,900 packages and Mega Stores orders 19,500 packages annually. Variable manufacturing costs are $19 per package, and annual fixed manufacturing costs are $534,000.

The gourmet chocolate business has two seasons, holidays and non-holidays. The holiday season lasts exactly four months and the non-holiday season lasts eight months. Verns orders the same amount each month, so Verns orders 17,700 packages during the holidays and 37,200 packages in the non-holiday season. Mega Stores only carries Mercias chocolates during the holidays.

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b. Calculate the product cost for each season with excess capacity costs assigned to the season requiring it.

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  • Required B:

Calculate the product cost for each season with excess capacity costs assigned to the season requiring it. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places.)

Product Cost

Non-holiday

per package

Holiday

per package

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